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Menlo Park: BevMo burglar gets away with an empty box

A burglar apparently stole a valuable bottle of 30-year-old MacAllan whisky from Beverages and More at 700 El Camino Real on Saturday, Aug. 9, but what he actually got away with was the tall box meant to hold the bottle.

The bottle of whisky, reported by the Menlo Park Police Department to have a value of $1,899.99, was locked away, the store manager told the Almanac.

Menlo Park police added that the burglar broke a display case in the store and "attempted to steal champagne, which was left behind."

The store manager would not comment on the status of the display case or the champagne and referred the matter to BevMo headquarters, which has not yet responded to a request for comment.

Posted by fwiw
a resident of Woodside: other
on Aug 15, 2014 at 10:41 am

@paf, @gina -

fyi, the Darwin awards are not simply synonymous with a demonstration of a lack of intelligence, though that characteristic certainly improves the probability of receiving the award. The Darwin award is given only posthumously to those individuals who have improved our chances of survival as a species by removing themselves from gene pool in spectacular and uncommon fashion of their own device. The rules also preclude nomination of individuals who do so while including innocent victims in their act.

Since the individual in this case remains alive and thus a candidate to procreate, he is ineligible to be nominated for a Darwin award.

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